# Kevin McBride > Principal Product Designer Location: Mountain View, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/kevinmcbride 15+ years of innovative product design in start-ups, enterprise, consumer, and IT. I focus on business results for customers: GenAI design vision led 2X sales goal on new product; design sprint delivered 3X sales leads with GenAI in 2 weeks; used UX data analytics to reduce time to value by 90% in multi-cloud; cut problem resolution time by 10x with design research in data tooling. Inventor of 14 patents in database, web, and UI. ## Work Experience ### Principal Product Designer @ LogicMonitor Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States • Delivered a UX vision for a Troubleshooting Agent solving complex networking and other IT problems used by sales team to drive 2X revenue on new AI product offering. • Led customer research and competitive analysis study of GenAI in the observability space. • Leveraged ML models, LLMs, conversational UI, and MUI design system in Figma. ### Principal Product Designer @ Stellar Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States • Led executives through design thinking and storyboarding to show how AI/ML and generative AI can drive new experiences in sales, marketing, government, and enterprise. • Delivered interactive prototype in a 2-week design sprint showing 3X sales lead improvement with Gen AI. • Leveraged multiple LLMs, conversational UI, and Google Material 3 design system in Figma. ### Distinguished Product Designer @ Splunk Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 • Delivered new hybrid cloud management and automation experience design in 2 months. • Formed a cross-functional team to define a 3-year strategic vision for the end-to-end customer experience of the Splunk cybersecurity portfolio. Voted #1 Big Idea by the leadership team. • Led design thinking workshops and user research, identified key themes, built a customer journey storyboard illustrating the vision, and aligned the team on an implementation plan. ### Principal Product Designer @ VMware Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, CA • Led VMC on AWS design from initial concept through years of continuous delivery. • Created design vision that drove VMware Cloud strategy - adopted by the executive team as the top priority for VMware. Integrated 10+ products into a single console experience. • Introduced and trained teams on design thinking with an End-to-End Story framework focused on stakeholder goals, the learn-try-buy-use-grow journey, and business results. • Founded VMware Design Studio and increased user research to 2000+ sessions/year. ### Founding UX/UI Designer @ CivitasAI Jan 2016 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California • Designed and coded AI-based conversational UX/UI using React and Google Dialogflow. • Achieved 80% success rate answering resident questions. • Validated potential to handle 20% of calls, costs savings of $300K+ per agency. ### Co-Founder @ ibubl Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA • Designed and coded an Android app using Java, Android Studio, and SDK tools. • Storytelling demos of adding creative content to videos in education and entertainment. • Failed fast by testing with target users and analyzing business case scenarios. ### Senior Staff Product Designer @ IBM Jan 2001 – Jan 2015 | Silicon Valley Lab • Led 12-person multi-disciplinary design thinking team for cloud-based data tooling. • Reduced data tooling up and running time 95% and time for problem resolution by 10x. • Led customer engagements and feedback to design a seamless workflow integrating four products for database performance monitoring, administration, and optimization. • Worked with CTO of data security to redesign flagship product for a radically simplified user experience. Led cross-functional team of PM, sales, support, engineering, and UX. • Co-led company-wide workgroup to create UI design system (IBM One UI). • Increased web development skills of 4,500+ IBM developers in 27 countries through webcasts and a self-study syllabus that I assembled and taught. ### Co-Founder @ GoGoVerde Jan 2008 – Jan 2011 | Mountain View, California • Co-founded Internet start-up focused on social networking for cities and neighborhoods. • Developed business plan awarded semi-finalist at Clean Tech Open competition. • Successful acquisition exit to Nextdoor where city partnership strategy drove adoption. ### Graduate School Lecturer @ UC Berkeley Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | School of Information Management Systems Taught the University of California at Berkeley graduate course SIMS 214 Usability and User Needs Assessment including topics on the design lifecycle, contextual inquiry, user and task analysis, competitive analysis, scenarios, personas, heuristic evaluation, usability metrics, usability testing, remote testing, accessibility, and globalization. Designed the course syllabus and developed much of the course material. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Technical and Scientific Communication, Computer Science University of Minnesota ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mcbrideux --- Source: https://flows.cv/kevinmcbride JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kevinmcbride/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23